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I found my self in a fimilar situation where I wanted to modify a table but was not sure how heavily it was used. So I started out with a script that just searched for a table. Then I tought to my self...self...What about all those times you want to expand a column or drop […]

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2006-01-16 (first published: )

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The Decoded Value

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:

DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!';
DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX);

SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000)));
SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded) 

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